Background: Currently approximately 20.9 million human beings are victims of human trafficking worldwide-a modern form of slavery. The victims are mostly women and children and come from a variety of different countries. As part of an Erasmus Intensive Program a two-week spring school was held on "Human Trafficking, Public Health and the Law" focusing the issue of human trafficking, particularly from the perspectives of Law and Public Health. Results: Students and teachers from five universities from different countries worked out the principles on the international fight against trafficking in human beings using the method of the "New Haven School of Jurisprudence". These "Siena Principles on Human Trafficking and Public Health" focus on the three levels prevention, prosecution of traffickers and protection of victims. Conclusion: The Spring School should set an sign to encourage the international, interdisciplinary discourse on the problem of trafficking in persons. In the future, in particular research in the field of Public Health should be intensified as the basis for development of targeted measures in the fight against human trafficking. In the following article the contents of the Spring School will be illuminated, including the methodology used, and the final result-the written principles-illustrated. © 2014 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.

Spring school Public health New Haven school Human trafficking Erasmus intensive program

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